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In out-of-print photo volume 'Matriarchs', Austrian photographer Maria HAAS focuses on the investigation of cultures in which women have a special status. She opens these cultures to the viewer and captures their beauty and vitality in sensitive portraits

HC with dust jacket & obi, 26,5 x 26,5 x 3 cm., 324 pp., b/w ills., bilingual texts: Japanese / English

In her out-of-print volume 'LAND', Dutch photographer Laura van SEVEREN expands the concept of landscape photography to include abstraction; In addition, their work includes an industrial-economic-critical aspect. This makes the work a relevant photo book

HC, 15 x 20 cm., 128 pp., 100 ills., bilingual text: German / ENglish

The photographs in the book 'Hey! Hattori' by Yasushi MORI illustrate the love spun together by the Japanese photographer and his pet cat Hattori-kun, who fled Futaba, a town in Fukushima when the Great East Japan Earthquake devastated the region in 2011.

The book 'Magic Eye' offers an overview of the work of René GROEBLI. We discover his fascination for movement and speed. And we encounter the rich hues of his unique, innovative color photography, through which even commissioned works become timeless art.

Out-of-print publication reconstructs the process of the creation of the book 'Love on the Left Bank' by Dutch photographer Ed van der ELSKEN on the basis of unpublished documents - contact prints, sketches, maps - as well as a text by Tamara Berghmans.

In the photo book 'China Dream', which bears the name of a patriotic calendar, we take part in the study by exiled Chinese photographer Teresa ENG about the contrast between cultural knowledge about China and the reality of a country in constant change.

This chronologically arranged monograph on the work of Eugène ATGET shows a photograph and includes the commentary of the editor, John Szarkowski. However, it is less about an exact analysis than about capturing the context and describing the attributes.

In 'Sea Stories', the photos by Robert ADAMS describe the cycles of nature with a new naturalism. It contents a sequence of three visual narratives: among alder and maple trees, along the beachand back through meadows and what remains of the inland forest

This perfectly produced photo volume, 'Kvidinge' by Gerry JOHANSSON, contains photographs taken between 2004 and 2007. It has been published in April 2007 as part of the exhibition 'On the verge of his existence' at the Hasselblad Center in Stockholm.

In 'SPUD', Brian GRIFFIN explores the relationship between potatoes and those soldiers who were killed in the same place some 100 years ago. 'SPUD', the informal word for potato, was also used for British soldiers of low rank during the First World War.

Boxed pb., 21 x 23 cm., o.pp., color ills., text language: English

This out-of-print photo volume 'Menschen ohne Maske. Photographien 1906 - 1952' by German photographer August SANDER in paperback format is a re-issue of a 1971 publication, released at Swiss Bucher Verlag.

'Mauvais genre' presents views of men and women at the intersection of private life, the history of homosexuality, and feminist activism. Christine Bard and Isabelle Bonnet shed light on this often-silenced aspect through photos from Lifshitz collection.

HC, 16 x 24 cm., 112 pp., 61 color ills.

HC with a special "jacket", 16 x 22,5 x 1,5 cm., 88 pp., color ills., Spanish / English / Turkish

In out-of-print book 'Nichtraum' Nicole AHLAND depicts the interplay of light, space & tim showing deserted spaces, shifted into darkness or overexposed by light. Using analog photography, she creates effects of transparency, superimposition & soft focus.

In this out-of-print photo book 'Lines, Marks, and Drawings. Lines, Marks and Drawings. Through the Lens of Roger Ballen', this volume examines his work from a new perspective, from distinctive portraits and complex photographic tableaux to YouTube films.

In the 1930s, Werner MANTZ was commissioned to produce an extensive photographic documentation. In the photo book 'On Coal Mining in Limburg' this work is presented as an important historical document of a glorious era in the style of New Objectivity.